David Fitzgerald, David Cook-Martin, 2014, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas, Cambridge (Massachusetts), London, Harvard University Press, 501 p.

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Is democracy immune to racism’ For many commentators and researchers the answer is a resounding yes: racism and democracy seem – obviously and almost by nature – incompatible, the implicit understanding being that democratic values conflict with racist presuppositions and practices. Upon further reflection, however, the answer is not so obvious: for a considerable part of their history, democratic (…)